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Performing Unification : History and Nation in German Theater after 1989 /

Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the most important German theater artists have created plays and productions about unification. Some have challenged how German history is written, while others opposed the very act of storytelling. Performing Unification examines how Germa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cornish, Matt (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : Berlin, Alexanderplatz
  • 1. History and nation in German drama before 1989
  • 2. Unification as drama
  • 3. Western playwrights and counternarratives of unification
  • 4. Allegory and antiallegory in the Ost
  • 5. Eastern directors and postdramatic historiography
  • 6. Performing archives and museums in the freie Szene
  • Epilogue : hybridized history.